Shipping-box.



E. 1. SHEEHAN. SHIPPING BOX.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 4

Patented Sept. 26, 1916.

A TTORNEY WITNESSES:

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWARD J. SHEEHAN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO THE NOISELESS TYPE- WRITER COMPANY, OF MIDDLETOWN,

NECTICUT.

CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION OF CON- SHIPPING-BOX.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 26, 1916.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, EDWARD J. SHEEHAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shipping- Boxes, of which the following is a full,

clear, and exact description, such as will en able others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to boxes, and, with regard to certain more specific features thereof, to boxes especially adapted for shipping and storing fragile and delicate merchandise and machines, such as typewriters, cash-registers, and the like.

One of the objects of the present invention is to provide a strong and durable box of the above character of practical construction. I

Another object is to provide a simple and inexpensive shipping box adapted to yieldingly support the article or machine contamed therein.

Other objects will be in part obvious and in part pointed out hereinafter.

The invention accordingly consists in the features of construction, combinations of elements and arrangement of parts which will be exemplified in the construction hereinafter set forth, andthe scope of the application of which will be indicated in the following claim.

In the accompanying drawings wherein is shown one of the various possible embodiments of this invention, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the complete box in inverted position, with the interior parts thereof designated by dotted lines, and Fig. 2 is a sectional view taken on the line XX of Fig. 1, showing the box right side up.

Similar reference characters refer to similar parts throughout both views of the drawm iteferring now in detail to the drawing, Fig. 1 shows acomplete box in inverted position particularly designed for shipping typewriting machines. To the opposite sides 3 and 4 of the box are secured cleats or strips 5 nominally positioned vertically at each end of each side and extending slightly above and below the upper and lower edges thereof in order to overlap bottom and top members 6 and 7 respectively. These members 6 and 7 also extend beyond the ends of the sides 3 and 4, in order to overlap end walls 8 and 10. It will thus be seen that when the parts are assembled each of the six surfaces of the box overlaps and 1s overlapped by, two adjacent opposite sides, that is, by considering the sides 3 and 4 with the attached cleats 5 as being one part, or wall. In this manner a very strong and durable box is produced which practically prevents one of the surfaces or sides from breaking away from the adjacent sides by force exerted from the interior in any one direction. For example, if the securing means, either nails or screws, pass downwardly through the bottom 6 into the end wall 8, as well as through the end wall into the sides or cleats 5, there are thus produced two sets of fastening means which require forces exerted at right angles in order to produce their removal. Thus this with overlapping sides is particularly adapted to resist the movement in any direction of the support and the heavy machine carried thereby.

Positioned and secured in each interior cornerof the box and resting upon the bottom 6, when the box is right side up, are corner pieces 11 which extend substantially two-thirds of the interior height of the box. These corner members are adapted to support a carrier hereinafter termed a skid to which the machine is secured, as will be morefully described hereinafter. This skid comprises a relatively flat board or plate 12, having at each end thereof a transverse strengthening member 13 to prevent warping or splitting of the board. On the exposed surface of each member 13 and the under side of the board 12 at each end are springs 14, preferably made of sheet metal and provided with upturned ends 15, as such construction is believed to be stronger and more reliable in use. These springs are secured to the skid by means of bolts 16, passing therethrough as shown. It will thus be cushion any movement of the skid inan-y-di rection in a substantially horizontal plane. The sets of springs combined with these buffers will cushion the movement of the skid in any and all directions. Thus ifithe box should be dropped and land on one cormoved and placed on the upper surface of a frame orltable, say four or five feet high, having an opening in the under side. The machine to be shipped isthen placed upon theupper surface of the skid and screws 20 or other fastening. means, are through holes 21 directly into the legs of the machine which are preferably provided:

with tapped out recesses for the reception of such securing means. securingthe machine to the skidlessensthe chances of-marring the frame by external fastening means. After securely fastening the machineto the skid, the heads of screws 20 are preferably sealedover to prevent accidental removal thereof, and the skid and machine are removed from .the table, inverted, and lowered through the open top of the box ;until the upturned ends of the springs 15 coactwith the four cornerpie'ces. The cover 7 is then securedto the box, preferably by screws which are-more easy to remove, and in so .doing the springs are slightly compressed, thus preventing any play between thespringsand the cover or corner pieces that -might otherwise occur. The address of the consignee and directions for opening the'box are then placedpupon thecover to insure-the box'being keptright side up. By having the machine suspended in inverted positionas shown in Fig. 2 the possibility of breakageor damage is some- C'opiesof this patentmay be obtainedtor five cents each, byaddrcssingJ-the.Commissioner.ef luents;

inserted 1 This manner of 1 .wha-tureduced. For instance, if some sharp pointed object, as avcrowbar for example,

were dropped upon the stop of thebox, it

would have to penetrate the skid as well as :thecover before any damage could be done .to the machine.

It isithus seen that this invention provides a strong and practical shipping box for the purpose above-described adapted to accomplish, among others, all of the objectsand.

advantages above set forth.

As many changes couldbemade in the above construction and many apparently widely difi'erent. embodiments of this in-' vention could be made without departing from the scope thereof, ,it is intended that all matter contained in the above description. or shown in the accompanying drawing shall be interpreted as illustrative and not in a limiting sense.

It .is also to be understood that the language used'in the following claim is intendedto cover all ofthe generic and specific features of the-invention herein :described .andall statementsof the scope of theinvention, which, as a matter of lan= guage, might .be said to fallktherebetween.

Havlng described my invention, whatfIj EDWARD. J. SHEEHAN;

Witnesses M. T. SMOOT, 

